Hello friends,
My name is Jude and I live in Buffalo, NY. I started my first tank two months ago now. A IM fusion 25 gallon lagoon. I have 2 clowns and my prized Helfrichi fire-fish. A Zoa frag and GSP. My CUC is doing well.
I am very new to running a saltwater tank but no stranger to Aquariums. I have a situation that baffles me.
My helfrichi a week ago jumped into the back filtration chambers through the emergency overflow. I have a lid, but it leaves a little space below for the overflow. I attached an image below of the emergency overflow for those who may not have one in there tank design
It escaped my attempts to fish it out of the chambers by vaulting itself onto the floor, where I retrieved it and put it in the tank immediately.
Yesterday I got back from work and didn’t see her in the tank where she usually is, and took everything out of the back chambers, I was doing a massive water change anyways, after a fluconazole treatment for bryopsis algae.
I saw it, and tried to put my little net down to catch her, but it appears she is under the bottom glass of the filtration chamber….. I know it sounds insane, but I can’t reach it. I put my tweezers down into one of the chambers that the fish seems to be in, and I was tapping the glass above the fish. I can’t get a good photo but the one below is the best I could get…
Has anyone ever had an issue like this?
Any thoughts or insight would be so appreciated…. I just want my fish back….
Thanks y’all
My name is Jude and I live in Buffalo, NY. I started my first tank two months ago now. A IM fusion 25 gallon lagoon. I have 2 clowns and my prized Helfrichi fire-fish. A Zoa frag and GSP. My CUC is doing well.
I am very new to running a saltwater tank but no stranger to Aquariums. I have a situation that baffles me.
My helfrichi a week ago jumped into the back filtration chambers through the emergency overflow. I have a lid, but it leaves a little space below for the overflow. I attached an image below of the emergency overflow for those who may not have one in there tank design
It escaped my attempts to fish it out of the chambers by vaulting itself onto the floor, where I retrieved it and put it in the tank immediately.
Yesterday I got back from work and didn’t see her in the tank where she usually is, and took everything out of the back chambers, I was doing a massive water change anyways, after a fluconazole treatment for bryopsis algae.
I saw it, and tried to put my little net down to catch her, but it appears she is under the bottom glass of the filtration chamber….. I know it sounds insane, but I can’t reach it. I put my tweezers down into one of the chambers that the fish seems to be in, and I was tapping the glass above the fish. I can’t get a good photo but the one below is the best I could get…
Has anyone ever had an issue like this?
Any thoughts or insight would be so appreciated…. I just want my fish back….
Thanks y’all